lolcatnip

lolcatnip, 2 miesiące temu

I think the idea is that you have to build a monstrously strong deck to progress.

lolcatnip, 3 miesiące temu

Or, ownership itself is a service. Rights mean nothing if nobody enforces them, and that includes property rights.

lolcatnip, 3 miesiące temu

I think Ubisoft is clearly in the wrong, but you’re not making a good case. You’re conflating very different meanings of the word “own”.

In terms of legal ownership, only the copyright holder owns the intellectual property, including the right to distribute and license it. When a consumer “buys” a piece of media, they’re really just buying a perpetual license for their personal use of it. With physical media, the license is typically tied to whatever physical object (disc, book, ROM, etc.) is used to deliver the content, and you can transfer your license by transferring the physical media, but the license is still the important part that separates legal use from piracy.

When you pirate something, you own the means to access it without the legal right to do so. So, in the case at hand, players still “own” the game in the same sense they would if they had pirated it. Ubisoft hasn’t revoked anyone’s physical access to the bits that comprise the game; what they’ve done is made that kind of access useless because the game relies on a service that Ubisoft used to operate.

The real issue here is that Ubisoft didn’t make it clear what they were selling, and they may even have deliberately misrepresented it. Consumers were either not aware that playing the game required Ubisoft to operate servers for it, or they were misled regarding how long Ubisoft would operate the servers.

Ultimately I think what consumers are looking for is less like ownership and more like a warranty, i.e. a promise that what they buy will continue to work for some period of time after they’ve bought it, and an obligation from the manufacturer to provide whatever services are necessary to keep that promise. Game publishers generally don’t offer any kind of warranty, and consumers don’t demand warranties, but consumers also tend to expect punishers to act as if their products come with a warranty. Publishers, of course, don’t want to draw attention to their lack of warranty, and will sometimes actively exploit that false perception that their products come with a perpetual warranty.

I think what’s really needed is a very clear indication, at the point of purchase, of whether a game requires ongoing support from the publisher to be playable, along with a legally binding statement of how long they’ll provide support. And there should be a default warranty if none is clearly specified, like say 10 years from the point of purchase.

lolcatnip, 3 miesiące temu

My point is they never have and never will.

lolcatnip, 5 miesięcy temu

It’s a nice bonus but too short the be a full game.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

Bowties have been out of fashion for so long they just look silly most of the time. That seems like exactly what you’d want for a character who’s supposed to be whimsical.

Also a necktie doesn’t go with a tophat. For reasons I can’t explain, that kind of incongruity looks more accidental than it does whimsical.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

Also not a squash.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

So a From Software DLC, basically?

lolcatnip, 7 miesięcy temu

Microsoft does a piss poor job of documenting things, so a certain level of reliance on undocumented behavior is hard to avoid.

That’s no excuse for games hacking the kernel, though.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

The real nightmare is the kerning.

lolcatnip, 9 miesięcy temu

What matters is the total mass of the black hole, not its density. If you replaced Earth’s core with a black hole of the same mass, the gravity you’d feel at the surface (or beneath the surface) would be the same. You’d only notice a difference if you were in the hollow region formed by removing the core.

The way I see it, the real problem with a planet like Earth is that because the inside is so hot, the inner parts are too soft to support their own weight, and the crust is probably too fragile to support its own weight. That’s not a problem, though, in an asteroid or a planet that’s solid all the way through.

lolcatnip, 9 miesięcy temu

Such a great game. And The Last Guardian is criminally underrated.

lolcatnip, 9 miesięcy temu

Then you have to make sure it’s reasonably straightforward to figure everything out without the tutorial, so then why bother with the tutorial at all? As a player I’d hate to get stuck because I missed something that’s clearly spelled out in a tutorial I skipped.

lolcatnip, 10 miesięcy temu

Compared to the US, the EU is lightning fast. California probably beats them sometimes, though.

lolcatnip, 10 miesięcy temu

“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

From is run by Vogons!

lolcatnip, 10 miesięcy temu

Nah, objectification of people is fucking gross. That doesn’t change if you say “it’s just a joke, bro.” And it does matter when enough individually powerless people take up an idea. That’s literally how movements start. Like the MRA movement, for example, and now we have Andrew fucking Tate.

lolcatnip, 10 miesięcy temu

Man, if I had any illusions about Lemmy being filled with literal children, this thread would clear them right up. Sexual objectification is gross and it does have consequences, y’all.

lolcatnip, 10 miesięcy temu

I have no idea what any of y’all are talking about.

lolcatnip, 11 miesięcy temu

Probably not necessary to use a lens so long it can reach distant galaxies!

lolcatnip, 11 miesięcy temu

Or does it mean Australia is a planet?

lolcatnip, 11 miesięcy temu

Too late! 😁

lolcatnip, 11 miesięcy temu

Not really. I didn’t and it was fine.

lolcatnip, 11 miesięcy temu

A lot of people learned it wrong, myself included. I found out when I went to confirm that “Hap’s Burgers” is a funny as I thought. Sadly no.

lolcatnip, 11 miesięcy temu

She came really close to another mind-blowing fact: if you’re talking about linear motion, there’s no difference at all between “they’re moving” and “we’re moving”. Too bad the apparent motion of the stars is caused by rotation, otherwise it would have been a great lesson to introduce basic relativity concepts.

lolcatnip, 11 miesięcy temu

Yay!

lolcatnip, rok temu

Who are “these companies”? Game publishers and developers certainly aren’t a monolith. To me, this publisher’s complaint seems like an implicit critique of how big publishers have trained gamers to have expectations that are unrealistic for all but the most high-profile games.

lolcatnip, rok temu

I swore off early access after Phoenix Point. It sucks to already be bored with a game before it has the major kinks worked out.

Dead Cells is kind of a counterpoint, though. I’m not sure if I got it as “early access” per se, but since I bought it, they made some major balance changes that completely changed the meta, and those changes got me playing way more enthusiastically than I was before.

lolcatnip, rok temu

In my experience with telemetry, it’s100% about understanding how the product is performing and being used, and 0% about monitoring individual users. Telemetry data has little to no value for anyone not directly supporting the product.

lolcatnip, rok temu

Y’all, the article is obviously written for people in the path of totality. You’re not being clever complaining about the cost and hassle of traveling.

lolcatnip, rok temu

I was never bothered by the visual quality in The Mandalorian or Ahsoka, so I guess I have nothing to worry about.

lolcatnip, rok temu

Man, lots of people in this thread seem happy to accept any wild, physics-breaking idea rather than accept that there’s just a bunch of matter we can’t see.

lolcatnip, rok temu

Don’t be such a tardigrade.

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I’ve also stopped buying early access games. They may not be bad, but they’re not finished, and I don’t want to be bored with a game before I even get to see its finished form.

lolcatnip, rok temu

So the headline is just a lie.

lolcatnip, rok temu

Couldn’t they just insist on a perpetual license?

lolcatnip, rok temu

That kind of defeats the purpose of using licensed music.

lolcatnip, rok temu

So basically music rights owners are too greedy and demand so much money for a reasonable license they have publishers can’t afford it? Sounds about right.

lolcatnip, rok temu

What if you treat receiving subsidies as a failure condition?

lolcatnip, rok temu

Why does that matter for a game?

lolcatnip, rok temu

I wish rent-to-own was a more common model. Unfortunately the only examples I know of in real life involve customers paying several times the retail cost of the items they rent before they actually own them.

What I’d really like to see is a system that keeps rental and purchase prices roughly where they are, except that once you’ve paid rental fees equal to the purchase price, it counts as a purchase. That would relieve me of having to guess whether I’ll be using something enough to buy it, and I doubt it would hurt seller’s profits.

lolcatnip, rok temu

If everything is wired, why not just use an HDMI cable?

lolcatnip, rok temu

That was also my experience playing XCOM on a PS3 and then on a PC. It was almost like a whole new game.

lolcatnip, rok temu

I think people will be bothered if the voice acting in their games sounds like it could have been done by Stephen Hawking (or with less exaggeration, like an actor doing their first reading of a script).

lolcatnip, rok temu

My experience with large projects is that the bigger they get, the more their build systems turn into large projects in their own right. Maintaining the build for something like Windows is probably many people’s full-time job, so it’s no surprise a bunch of amateurs with no docs couldn’t do it.

lolcatnip, rok temu

I wonder about that for myself, not gonna lie. But I’ve been wondering off and on for like fifteen years, so if I am an egg, I’m having very hard time cracking.

lolcatnip, rok temu

Well, I am very full of myself.

lolcatnip, rok temu

To me, Occam’s razor also says they’re not recording that data anywhere because it exposes them to liability and because it’s useless.